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Tisingal Volcano

Updated: Mar 28, 2024 16:06 GMT -
Stratovolcano 2986 m / 9797 ft
Panama, 8.88°N / -82.67°W
Current status: (probably) extinct (0 out of 5)

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Typical eruption style: unspecified
Tisingal volcano eruptions: None during the past 10,000 years
Less than few million years ago (Pleistocene)

Latest nearby earthquakes

TimeMag. / DepthDistance / Location
Mar 27, 07:25 am (Costa Rica)
Mar 27, 13:25 GMT
3.1

20 km
24 km (15 mi) to the W Costa Rica, 15 km northeast of San Vito, Puntarenas
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Wednesday, March 20, 2024 GMT (1 quake)
Mar 20, 02:59 pm (Costa Rica)
Mar 20, 20:59 GMT
2.9

14 km
19 km (12 mi) to the NW Panama-costa Rica Border Region Info
Tuesday, March 19, 2024 GMT (1 quake)
Mar 19, 02:26 am (Panama)
Mar 19, 07:26 GMT
2.8

24 km
24 km (15 mi) to the SW 14 km al Oeste de Volcan, Chiriqui, Panama. Info
Monday, March 18, 2024 GMT (1 quake)
Mar 18, 12:46 pm (Panama)
Mar 18, 17:46 GMT
2.7

12 km
24 km (15 mi) to the E Panama-costa Rica Border Region Info
Thursday, March 28, 2024 GMT (1 quake)
Mar 27, 10:08 pm (Costa Rica)
Mar 28, 04:08 GMT
2.6

22 km
23 km (14 mi) to the W Costa Rica, 16 km northeast of San Vito, Puntarenas Info
Tuesday, March 19, 2024 GMT (1 quake)
Mar 19, 05:41 pm (Costa Rica)
Mar 19, 23:41 GMT
2.5

17 km
27 km (17 mi) to the NW Panama-costa Rica Border Region Info

Background

Volcán Tisingal (also known as Cerro Colorado or Cerro Pecón) lies adjacent to the Costa Rica border in the Talamanca Range of westernmost Panama, NW of Volcán Barú. A large andesitic-dacitic stratovolcano was breached to the SW by edifice collapse, leaving a 7-km-wide horseshoe-shaped caldera. Cerro Picacho, on the NE rim of the caldera, forms the 2986 m high point of the volcano. Two large lava domes, andesitic Cerro Totuma and dacitic Cerro Pelón, were formed in the NW and E sides of the caldera, respectively. Two additional domes, the larger of which is Cerro Pando, lie outside the caldera to the SSW, and another dome, Cerro Punta, is east of the caldera. Potassium-Argon ages for the Volcán Colorado complex range from 1.66 million years to 0.52 million years.
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Source: Smithsonian / GVP volcano information

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